Direct Structured Finite Element Mesh Generation From Three-Dimensional Medical Images
Sharareh Bayat, Dan Sorin Necsulescu, Michel R. Labrosse · Volume 1A: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms; Active and Reactive Soft Matter; Atherosclerosis; BioFluid Mechanics; Education; Biotransport Phenomena; Bone, Joint and Spine Mechanics; Brain Injury; Cardiac Mechanics; Cardiovascular Devices, Fluids and Imaging; Cartilage and Disc Mechanics; Cell and Tissue Engineering; Cerebral Aneurysms; Computational Biofluid Dynamics; Device Design, Human Dynamics, and Rehabilitation; Drug Delivery and Disease Treatment; Engineered Cellular Environments · 2013
In this work, a new methodology is proposed to automatically construct a structured finite element (FE) mesh from the information contained in patient-specific three-dimensional (3-D) images. Testing of the methodology is presented toward meshing of the human aorta from 3-D synthetic images as well as CT medical images. Promising results are obtained and future directions are discussed.